The author wishes to acknowledge his appreciation and gratitude to the following authors, publishers, and publications for permission to include the selections listed below:

The selection by Theophile Gautier is translated by Ralph J. Gladstone. Copyright Ralph J. Gladstone, 1966.

The selection by Charles Baudefaire is from The Essence of Laughter and Other Essays, edited by Peter Quennell and translated by Norman Cannon. Translation copyright C) 1956, Norman Coulon. Mirk edition copYright CD 1956, Weidenfeld and. Nicolson, Ltd.

The selection by William Burroughs, copyright 0 1963, is reprinted with the author's permission. The quotation appearing in the editor's  introduction to that selection is reprinted with the author's permission from "Depositions Testimony Concerning a Sickness,"Evergreen Review, January/February 1960. Copyright (:). 1960 by Grove Press, inc

The selection by Norman Taylor is from Narcotics, Nature's Dangerous Gift to Man. Copyright 0 1963, Norman Taylor; published by Dell Publishing Company, Inc.

The selection by Alfred Lindesmith is from The Addict and the' Law. 1965, Alfred Lindesrniths published by Indiana University Press

The selections by Howard S. Becker are from Outsiders. Copyright 1963 by the Free,Press of Glencoe, a division of The Macmillan-'Compaq, The Croviell-Collier Publishing Company.

The selection by George Morris Carstairs is reproduced by permission from the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Volume i pages 220-237, 1954. Copyright © 1954 by Journal -of Studies on Alcohol, Inc., New Brunswick, NJ.

The selections by Victor Robinson and W. Reininger are reprinted with, the permission of Ciba Pharmaceutical Company from Ciba Syniposic*, Volume 8, Number 5-6, August-September 1946.

The selection by François Rabelais is from Pantagruel, Chapters 49-52, Book 3 translated by Samuel Putnam; published by Covici-Fried., 1929, and reprinted by permission of Crown Publishers.

The selection by Paul Bowles Is from 100 camels in the courtyard published by City Press Copyright 1962

The selection by Terry Southern (copyright. 1960 Evergreen Review and is reprinted with permission.

The original selection by Allen Ginsberg is published with author's permission. Copyright Allen Ginsberg, 1966

The selection by Sheldon Cholst appeared in Residu and is published with the author's permission

The original selection by Timothy Leary is published author's permission. Copyright Timothy Leary, 1966

The selection from The Marihuana Problem MA. City of NY has been reprinted with the permission of Ronald Press, Originally published by Jaques Cotten, 1944.

The selection by Samuel Allentuck and Karl Bowman Is from American Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 99, Number 2

The selection by George Tayleur Stockings Is from 'Medical Journal, June 28, 1947, and is reprinted with the sion of the author and the Journal. -

The selection by Lloyd J. Thompson and Richard Proctor Is North Carolina Medical Journal, October 1953, and _with the permission of the authors and the Jouransl.

The selection by Robert Walton is from Marihuana, L B. Lippincott, 1938. Reprinted with permission of Ihe authori publisher. Copyright 0 Robert Walton, 1938.

The selection by William H. McGlothlin is printed with the sion of the author. Copyright    1965